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Salvation Army Clinic celebrates ‘staff month’ in style
Medical personnel and members of staff of the Salvation Army Anidasofie Clinic at Kokomlemle, a suburb of Accra last Friday dropped their professional apparels in place of local fabric to promote the wearing of indigenous clothes, as part of the activities marking staff month celebration.
The celebration marks the 4th Anniversary of the clinic which started as a Community-based Health Planning Service, popularly known as CHPS compound, to bring healthcare to the doorstep of the clients.
The month-long celebration was launched on Wednesday, June 1, 2022,on the theme “Blood, a Source of Life.”
Some of the activities earmarked included blood donation to stock the Blood Bank to save lives, old school days, African wear day, float and games, cooking competition, staff hangout and thanksgiving service.
The Administrator of the Clinic, Nafisa Zaballah, who launched the programme of activities said “a person who feels appreciated will always do more than what is expected,” adding that the motive for the staff month celebration was “to appreciate our stakeholders,staff, clients and the nation as a whole.”
She added that within a space off our years, members of staff of Anidasofie had vigorously worked to uplift the status of the facility to reach an appreciable height from being a CHPS compound that used to take care of four clients a day to a clinic.
Ms Zaballah said the clinic had almost all the units, including the Out-Patient Department, Maternity, Laboratory, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Eye, Nutrition, Reproductive and Child Health that took care of 25 clients a day.
The administrator said the clinic would continue to pursue its core mandate and rekindle the values of commitment, hardwork and relentless effort of staff members to give the people the best of healthcare.
This, she said, was to boost the confidence and trust of clients to increase clinic attendance and promote quality healthcare to the individuals living in Kokomlemle and its environs.
MsZaballah expressed thanks to the members of staff saying: “This needs to be applauded because without the commitment level of our staff and our cherished clients, the facility would not have reached this far.”
Present at the launch included Mr. Paul Bamfo, Chief Executive Officer of Escom Ltd; former Director of Salvation Army Health Service, Mudasir Mohammed, Human Resources Administration; Samuel AbaidooDarko, Administrator, Urban Aid Clinic.
By Times Reporter
Hundreds of street children received a special treat during the Christmas festivities as a result of a collaboration between the management of the La Beach Hotel and the Street Academy in Accra.
It was part of the Hotel’s current arrangement to provide lunch for the children of the Academy every Friday.
Courtesy that partnership, management of the La Beach Hotel feted hundreds of street children housed by the Street Academy, creating a partying moment for the children.
According to officials of the Hotel, the gesture was to let the children feel part of the festivities and not left out.
The children enjoyed delicious meals and snack after which they danced as they enjoyed the moment.
According to the Hotel officials, “the season represents one that every parent gathers their children and shower them with gifts and others to make them happy but sadly, these unfortunate children are left on their own, having no one to care for them.”
“This is an event we intend to make an annual one. Through this, we hope to put some smiles on their faces. It is not proper to leave them on their own.”
The Executive Director of the Academy, Ataa Lartey, expressed gratitude to the management of the hotel, saying that, “this has gone a long way to excite the children and make them feel part of the celebration.”
He said due to the number of children that join around this time of the year, it becomes difficult for the Academy alone to shoulder this responsibility.
“It is not easy to organise such activities alone because it draws a lot of children, that is, those in the Academy and their friends that follow them but with such cooperate supports, we are able to bring them together to share in moments like this,” he told The Spectator.
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A 30-year-old surrogate mother has delivered a set of quadruplets at The Walking Egg Medical and Fertility Centre at Pokuase in Accra, in a rare surrogacy success that has brought renewed attention to assisted reproductive care in Ghana.
The babies-two boys and two girls- were delivered through a caesarean section in the early hours of Tuesday at 36 weeks and weighed an average 2.5 kilograms each, a weight doctors say was healthy for a multiple pregnancy.
IUI stands for Intrauterine Insemination, a common fertility treatment where healthy sperm are collected, ‘washed’ and concentrated in a lab, and then directly inserted into a woman’s uterus around ovulation using a thin catheter to help sperm reach the egg for fertilisation, often used for unexplained infertility, cervical issues, or mild male factor infertility, and is less invasive than IVF.
Speaking to The Spectator after the surgery, the Medical Director of the Centre, Dr Nana Yaw Osei, said the pregnancy was achieved through Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) and was not planned to result in multiple births.
“With IUI, you introduce prepared sperm into the uterus and have no control over how many eggs fertilized.”
“Unlike IVF, where embryos are formed outside the body and the number transferred can be controlled, this outcome was left entirely to nature,” Dr Osei explained.
He said unlike IVF which could result in multiple babies, this is “possibly the first IUI leading to quadruplets in Ghana.”
He revealed that the surrogacy arrangement was necessary because the intended mother had lost her uterus during surgery to remove fibroids, making it medically impossible for her to carry a pregnancy.
“She had no womb of her own, through no fault of hers,” Dr Osei said, adding that “Surrogacy was the only option available for her to have a biological child.”
When scans later showed that the surrogate was carrying four fetuses, the medical team considered fetal reduction, a procedure sometimes used to reduce risks in multiple pregnancies. However, the option was rejected.
“As a strong Christian, fetal reduction is abortion to me,” Dr Osei said. “After discussions with the intended parents and the surrogate, we all agreed to continue with the pregnancy.”
Despite concerns commonly associated with multiple pregnancies, Dr Osei noted that the surrogate experienced no major complications, and the delivery was smooth. Paediatric assessments conducted after birth confirmed that all four babies are healthy.
Dr Osei again indicated that surrogacy, though still widely misunderstood, is recognised under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 2020 (Act 1027).
He urged the public to engage the subject with greater understanding.
“Surrogacy is not about convenience,” he said. “It is about restoring hope to people who have lost the ability to carry a child.”
Describing the moment of delivery, he added, “I was in tears in the theatre. It reminded me why I chose this profession.”
By Esinam Jemima Kuatsinu
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